Polygenic mutation in Drosophila melanogaster: non-linear divergence among unselected strains.

doi:10.1093/genetics/139.2.849

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Polygenic mutation in Drosophila melanogaster: non-linear divergence among unselected strains.

Genetics - 1 Feb 1995

Mackay T F, Lyman R F, Hill W G

Abstract excerpt

A highly inbred strain of Drosophila melanogaster was subdivided into 20 replicate sublines that were maintained independently with 10 pairs of randomly sampled parents per generation for 180 generations. The variance between lines in abdominal and sternopleural bristle number increased little af...

Topics

Analysis of Variance
Animals
Biological Evolution
Drosophila melanogaster
Female
Genetic Variation
Inbreeding
Male
Models, Genetic
Mutation
Selection, Genetic

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